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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I haven't used my Steam account in years, probably won't for more years either. How many games will even run? No one uses OGL anymore except id.

And the Source engine. And the Unity3D engine. And the Unigine engine. And the Unreal engine (any version, even Unreal 3).
In fact, most engines nowadays are made to run on mobile devices also. There is no Direct3D on mobile devices (except Windows devices of course).

Note the extra "-m" which takes care of the creation of the directory as well as setting the proper ownership.

Eric

Yes i did it that way and when type /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio start i've got this Starting pulseaudio...
No protocol specified
E: [pulseaudio] client-conf-x11.c: xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

I don't think you need to start pulseaudio, it just needs to be installed
because steam is linked to it. I have switched in the steam settings audio
to alsa and the gui works fine (including the big picture mode).

when i type steam in terminal i've got this error
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 13

Good question, I installed both and started the pulseaudio server... let's wait for others to give their feedback.

Eric

Ok tried installing those packages and no go, then I turned networkmanager on and it stays running but it seems to stall with "Checking for available updates..." which could just be a steam issue.

So I would say that having networkmanager running is a dependency as well.

EDIT .... restarting steam and it is seg faulting again so back to the drawing board.
EDIT2 pulseaudio is missing a dependency libsamplerate, checked Eric'c multilib repository and there is no ready made package (Eric you will need to add a package for this)

when i type steam in terminal i've got this error
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 13

Right, the client is incompatible with nouvea, I had to install the nvidia blob.

LATE EDIT

A game that does work is the World of Goo demo.

Game ID 22010

If you get the store page the link to install the PC demo works.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

I was able to play the demo of World of Goo - which seems to be the only Linux game you can activate if you are not invited for the closed beta.
Eric

You missed that in one of my earlier posts I guess ;-)

I uploaded a few changes to my multilib repository. I have added ap/flac ap/sqlite l/libogg l/libsamplerate l/libvorbis to the massconvert32.sh script. These are the Slackware packages which will be needed if you want run the Linux version of Steam. I also refreshed all the *compat32 packages for Slackware 14.0 for those who do not want to run massconvert32.sh and just want to download & install packages.

Well crud! I can't even get the page where one joins to load correctly (https://store.steampowered.com/join/). None of the javascript things work like the pulldown menu for 'secret question' or the 'refresh' of the weird letter/numbers thing. I've tried it with seamonkey, firefox and opera.

I've got jre-7u9-i586-1 installed on my slackware 14 system (32 bit).

The java *seems* to work on other websites, but is there someplace I can check to make sure?